But if it's a likeness in the ordinary sense, this standard is really too low for professional painters.
What is a basic likeness then?
Nowadays, there are quite a few oil painting villages around the world.
These villages rely on specialized reproduction of oil paintings for a living. Many workers have never attended school, working in three shifts every day, with bare shoulders crowded into cramped, stuffy studios, earning meager wages to copy famous paintings like Van Gogh's self-portrait.
The work process presents factory-like assembly line management. Some people are responsible for painting eyebrows, and after finishing the eyebrows, they pass the painting to the next person to paint the eyes, then pass it again for the nose.
A single village can produce over a hundred thousand "self-portraits" in a year, accounting for more than ninety-five percent of the Van Gogh reproductions circulating online worldwide.
These paintings look similar to ordinary people.
